Passing of Mary Crow Dog

An early member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), she remained a defender of its influence:

“Before AIM came, people didn’t have their long hair, people didn’t have
their Indian pride,” she said. “Everybody was assimilated. These people
still put AIM people down, but now they are having sun dances. Before,
nobody did it because everybody was Catholic and nobody knew about the
Indian ways until the AIM people came. Now they are a lot better off,
but they still don’t recognize the movement.”